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Steam Forums Hacked?

[Nov 07, 2011, 11:47 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Steam Users' Forums currently offer the following message: "The Steam Forums are temporarily offline for maintenance. Your patience is appreciated." This may be just normal maintenance, but we have also seen an image suggesting they were compromised in some manner, and for a while were directing users to a site offering ways to cheat at games, so this may be what Valve is in the process of cleaning up. We'll pass on posting the screenshot to avoid advertising the site, and are waiting to see if Valve has a response to our questions about this (it's still early on the west coast). Thanks Joao.

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Re: Steam Forums Hacked?

Nov 7, 2011, 22:16

Dev

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 21:40: Dev wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 21:32: . Email addys getting stolen is hardly something that everyone should be happy about. Well the real question is how much got stolen. As it is, I haven't gotten spammed on my gmail account that I use for the steam forums, which is different from my steam account login. But I think a FOB would be nice at this point too. Its also possible nothing got stolen. If the emails so far are indeed from the valve servers (the pasted headers in this thread make it seem possible), then its possible the hack just got into the mass email part of the forums, and mass emailed something with valve forum email servers, but didn't have access to the actual addresses themselves.

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Comment [quote="Dev"Nov 7, 2011, 22:16][quote="Mashiki Amiketo"Nov 7, 2011, 21:40][quote="Dev"Nov 7, 2011, 21:32]. Email addys getting stolen is hardly something that everyone should be happy about. [/quote] Well the real question is how much got stolen. As it is, I haven't gotten spammed on my gmail account that I use for the steam forums, which is different from my steam account login. But I think a FOB would be nice at this point too. [/quote] Its also possible nothing got stolen. If the emails so far are indeed from the valve servers (the pasted headers in this thread make it seem possible), then its possible the hack just got into the mass email part of the forums, and mass emailed something with valve forum email servers, but didn't have access to the actual addresses themselves. [/quote]

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